from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures

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Examples

Washington: India American teenager Kavya Shivashankar finally won it all in the televised US National Spelling Bee competition, nailing esoteric words from "hydrargyrum" to "Laodicean", coolly writing them down with her finger on her palm.

Those dang cheap fillings made from silver and mercury (symbols Ag and Hg (heh, didn't you always think hydrargyrum was a funny sounding word for mercury (oh! and did you know you can actually force the noble gases to bond with mercury by utilizing an electric discharge?))))